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Talking to those around me the consensus seems to be a shared frustration that overall the quality isn’t great throughout the championship yet somehow we’ve been so poorly managed as a club we’ve managed to set up a team capable of a bottom half position, astonishing really considering the money they had to spend. must struggle to look each other in the eye at board meetings from shame at how bad they are at their jobs , clueless from top down as an organisation

I lost the will to continue arguing with people earlier in the season making this exact point, our team really isn’t that good with glaring weaknesses that other teams can figure out quickly. poor at the back, weak in midfield and so soft up front just get bullied by championship defences, high wage bill though Spors failed to address these in the summer despite having months to prepare, combined with his management appointments it’s clear he has no idea what he’s doing. every single person in a management role at the club must be completely embarrassed at their incompetence

I said previously that he reminded me of Selles and more so as time goes by, looks a bit lost out on the touch line looking at his iPad. Time is up for Sports Republic, endless run of appalling decisions , this will be another one. should have just gone for Rohl I think

That would be a shock, Birmingham home record is very solid isn't it?

Best bet is for Solaks business interests to go bad and need to cash in his assets , not sure how likely that is

Going to be an emotional game saying farewell to 2025, a truly record breaking year for our football club , we started the calendar year with a 0-5 defeat at home to Brentford under Ivan the terrible, what would be a fitting result to end the year with?

The away regulars I've talked to are all dreading this trip, perfect storm of pathetic early morning sober bus trip at sunrise combined with our pathetic bunch of wasters masquerading as a football team with zero fight in them, the least streetwise football side that has ever existed ripe to be bullied by a physical skate line up made up of league one standard players. If Saints ever read this forum to be clear this would absolutely be the last straw to break Sport Republic's back, no coming back from defeat in this game. They will have seen the pattern at Hull, Blackburn, Millwall, Norwich, Oxford and know exactly what's required to beat us

I think they have also lost one of their better defenders to AFCON , Bright Osayi-Samuel

I'd add Stuart Armstrong to that list as well, great player for us

The players attitudes or ability? Because if the game was played on paper even a bad manager should be able to get more points out of the players we have. I acknowledge as a collective team we do look absolutely shite though, pieces of the puzzle just don't fit

Makes me laugh when club leaked they had spoken to a few managers but none of them had impressed, setting up Tonda as the default choice when he was clearly Spors man all along. Run by a bunch of amateurs bluffing their way through it , surely behind closed doors they must be embarrassed by how insanely bad they are at their jobs

And yet we kept being told what a big squad we have! But you are absolutely right and probably explains our horrendous 2nd half record, our substitutions benefit the opposition

That's how I felt about Azaz, most frustrating player

What's your secret mate? Still winds me up , I probably need to grow up and learn to not care so much

Spors needs to be pushed in a proper interview why he ignored such glaring weaknesses in the squad , some of us made this point in the summer but plenty of gullible/ naive fans on here still called it a 8/10 window and "more than good enough for the championship "

100% that's the case. They know he has crisp packet hands and any shot on target statistically has a good chance of going in

Is controlled the game by passing it around in our own half? Same old stupid tactics and same old stupid mistakes

When everyone was saying give him the job after 4 wins I said does that mean he gets the sack if we lose 4? Ok we haven't done that but point stands, stupid appointment with no long term strategy He's got no experience as a manager and virtually no one with that alongside him, playing stupid football and being found out time and time again

All true. Blackburn 2 v 1 Saints Norwich 2 v 1 Saints Oxford 2 v 1 Saints Pompey ? v ? Saints

We've sold about 1700 out of the 3000 so far , not surprising considering amount of traveling We've got in a month

The pre match coverage Saints say need to "manage" Fellows after his groin injury, early planning on having him on the bench and hoping to have him at Birmingham. I can't see us winning, a draw probably

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